{"id":375103,"date":"2018-08-27T19:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-only-believes-in-force-and-aggression-academic\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:44:25","slug":"presstv-us-only-believes-in-force-and-aggression-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-only-believes-in-force-and-aggression-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US only believes in force and aggression: Academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran has every right to take court action against Washington after\u00a0Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed &#8220;illegal&#8221; sanctions on Tehran, American writer and academic James Petras says, adding that the US &#8220;only believes in force and aggression.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Iran filed a complaint at\u00a0 the UN&#8217;s top court, the\u00a0Hague-based tribunal\u00a0known as the World Court, asking it\u00a0order the US to lift its recently re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The United States objected on Monday to the lawsuit filed by Iran at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) .<\/p>\n<p>Professor emeritus Petras told Press TV\u00a0\u00a0in an interview on Monday that the re-imposition of sanctions\u00a0against Tehran indicates that \u201cWashington has no intention of abiding by any international decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Iranian government had every right to pursue the judicial process.<\/p>\n<p>The US efforts to evade the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/27\/572437\/US-Interview-Petras-Sanctions-Court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has every right to take court action against Washington after\u00a0Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed &#8220;illegal&#8221; sanctions on Tehran, American writer and academic James Petras says, adding that the US &#8220;only believes in force and aggression.&#8221; Last month, Iran filed a complaint at\u00a0 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}